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I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can
hear the ring and answer it on my home phone. Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the telephone! Yippee. You guys should have told me about that years ago! |
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On Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:02:14 UTC-3, John H wrote:
I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can hear the ring and answer it on my home phone. Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the telephone! Yippee. You guys should have told me about that years ago! Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number. |
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On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 07:41:40 -0700 (PDT), True North wrote:
On Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:02:14 UTC-3, John H wrote: I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can hear the ring and answer it on my home phone. Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the telephone! Yippee. You guys should have told me about that years ago! Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number. And they'll be treated the same. |
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On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 08:02:10 -0400, John H
wrote: I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can hear the ring and answer it on my home phone. Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the telephone! Yippee. You guys should have told me about that years ago! How does that work? Do you dock your cell phone in the home phone base? Obviously if you are out on the golf course with your phone, the home phone is not going to ring. (unless there is something about SIM cards that I do not understand) |
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On 7/30/17 10:41 AM, True North wrote:
On Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:02:14 UTC-3, John H wrote: I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can hear the ring and answer it on my home phone. Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the telephone! Yippee. You guys should have told me about that years ago! Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number. I finally "dumped" my "wired" landline phone here after 15 years, and set up an "internet" phone from the cable supplier. It's OK, but not as good or reliable as the landline phone. I don't use it often. I subscribe to a service that blocks about 90% of spam and robot calls from my cellphone. |
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On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:00:00 -0400,
wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 11:25:05 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 08:02:10 -0400, John H wrote: I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can hear the ring and answer it on my home phone. Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the telephone! Yippee. You guys should have told me about that years ago! How does that work? Do you dock your cell phone in the home phone base? Obviously if you are out on the golf course with your phone, the home phone is not going to ring. (unless there is something about SIM cards that I do not understand) === I'm guessing it's probably a "Bluetooth" link similar to what most modern cars provide for hands free operation of your cell phone. Virtually all of the newer cell phones have Bluetooth capability. If you have a lot of MP3 music stored on your phone Bluetooth is also useful to linking up with wireless speakers, ear buds, etc. That is still "docked" in the data sense. If you are more than 10 meters from the house phone, it is a paperweight. As long as everyone has their own phone that is OK but if you are home alone and don't have a phone you are Amish. I suppose you can back that up with VOIP but at that point, why bother with the cell interface? |
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On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:11:28 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote: On 7/30/17 10:41 AM, True North wrote: On Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:02:14 UTC-3, John H wrote: I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can hear the ring and answer it on my home phone. Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the telephone! Yippee. You guys should have told me about that years ago! Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number. I finally "dumped" my "wired" landline phone here after 15 years, and set up an "internet" phone from the cable supplier. It's OK, but not as good or reliable as the landline phone. I don't use it often. I subscribe to a service that blocks about 90% of spam and robot calls from my cellphone. I might think of that but my landline is pretty much free as long as I have DSL. Since everything is underground here the POTS lines are pretty much 100% available. I can't say that about Comcast, the only other real choice. They are up on poles with repeaters connected to the grid. Just about anything takes them down. |
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On Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 12:00:05 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 11:25:05 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 08:02:10 -0400, John H wrote: I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can hear the ring and answer it on my home phone. Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the telephone! Yippee. You guys should have told me about that years ago! How does that work? Do you dock your cell phone in the home phone base? Obviously if you are out on the golf course with your phone, the home phone is not going to ring. (unless there is something about SIM cards that I do not understand) === I'm guessing it's probably a "Bluetooth" link similar to what most modern cars provide for hands free operation of your cell phone. Virtually all of the newer cell phones have Bluetooth capability. If you have a lot of MP3 music stored on your phone Bluetooth is also useful to linking up with wireless speakers, ear buds, etc. That's exactly what it is. We have Panasonic cordless phones, both of our cell phones link up automatically as soon as they are in range, and can be answered with the cordless handsets just as John describes. You can also choose which cell phone to use to make outbound calls. It even rings with the cell phone's ringtone. They are calling it "Link2Cell". |
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On Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 1:31:17 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:00:00 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 11:25:05 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 08:02:10 -0400, John H wrote: I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can hear the ring and answer it on my home phone. Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the telephone! Yippee. You guys should have told me about that years ago! How does that work? Do you dock your cell phone in the home phone base? Obviously if you are out on the golf course with your phone, the home phone is not going to ring. (unless there is something about SIM cards that I do not understand) === I'm guessing it's probably a "Bluetooth" link similar to what most modern cars provide for hands free operation of your cell phone. Virtually all of the newer cell phones have Bluetooth capability. If you have a lot of MP3 music stored on your phone Bluetooth is also useful to linking up with wireless speakers, ear buds, etc. That is still "docked" in the data sense. If you are more than 10 meters from the house phone, it is a paperweight. As long as everyone has their own phone that is OK but if you are home alone and don't have a phone you are Amish. I suppose you can back that up with VOIP but at that point, why bother with the cell interface? If you don't have a cell phone you are correct, but this day who doesn't? If you are home, you can use your "home" cordless phone to make and receive calls. If you are away, you have your cell phone with you. For some that may not make sense, but for many (most?), it works great. We only keep out landline for the home alarm reporting service. One day I'll get an internet phone service and get rid of the TW bundled phone. It's just not that much money or big of a deal to make it worth it right now. |
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On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 13:31:00 -0400, wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:00:00 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 11:25:05 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 08:02:10 -0400, John H wrote: I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can hear the ring and answer it on my home phone. Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the telephone! Yippee. You guys should have told me about that years ago! How does that work? Do you dock your cell phone in the home phone base? Obviously if you are out on the golf course with your phone, the home phone is not going to ring. (unless there is something about SIM cards that I do not understand) === I'm guessing it's probably a "Bluetooth" link similar to what most modern cars provide for hands free operation of your cell phone. Virtually all of the newer cell phones have Bluetooth capability. If you have a lot of MP3 music stored on your phone Bluetooth is also useful to linking up with wireless speakers, ear buds, etc. That is still "docked" in the data sense. If you are more than 10 meters from the house phone, it is a paperweight. As long as everyone has their own phone that is OK but if you are home alone and don't have a phone you are Amish. I suppose you can back that up with VOIP but at that point, why bother with the cell interface? Yeah, it's docked. The Panasonic will link up to two cell phones. The cell interface enables me to cut Cox out of my phone system and not have to worry about where my damn cell phone is, as long as it's in the house. |
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On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 10:38:27 -0700 (PDT), Its Me wrote:
On Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 12:00:05 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 11:25:05 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 08:02:10 -0400, John H wrote: I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can hear the ring and answer it on my home phone. Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the telephone! Yippee. You guys should have told me about that years ago! How does that work? Do you dock your cell phone in the home phone base? Obviously if you are out on the golf course with your phone, the home phone is not going to ring. (unless there is something about SIM cards that I do not understand) === I'm guessing it's probably a "Bluetooth" link similar to what most modern cars provide for hands free operation of your cell phone. Virtually all of the newer cell phones have Bluetooth capability. If you have a lot of MP3 music stored on your phone Bluetooth is also useful to linking up with wireless speakers, ear buds, etc. That's exactly what it is. We have Panasonic cordless phones, both of our cell phones link up automatically as soon as they are in range, and can be answered with the cordless handsets just as John describes. You can also choose which cell phone to use to make outbound calls. It even rings with the cell phone's ringtone. They are calling it "Link2Cell". It's pretty cool. Can't believe I've just discovered it but have had these Panasonic phones for at least a couple years now. |
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On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:11:28 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 7/30/17 10:41 AM, True North wrote: On Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:02:14 UTC-3, John H wrote: I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can hear the ring and answer it on my home phone. Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the telephone! Yippee. You guys should have told me about that years ago! Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number. I finally "dumped" my "wired" landline phone here after 15 years, and set up an "internet" phone from the cable supplier. It's OK, but not as good or reliable as the landline phone. I don't use it often. I subscribe to a service that blocks about 90% of spam and robot calls from my cellphone. I use VoIP several years ago for a while. Didn't like it. Too much static or dropped calls or other screwy stuff. I do use Skype for calls to a land line at my friend's house in Holland. Costs all of $.02/minute, and the sound has always been spectacular. |
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On 7/30/2017 1:34 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:11:28 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 7/30/17 10:41 AM, True North wrote: On Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:02:14 UTC-3, John H wrote: I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can hear the ring and answer it on my home phone. Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the telephone! Yippee. You guys should have told me about that years ago! Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number. I finally "dumped" my "wired" landline phone here after 15 years, and set up an "internet" phone from the cable supplier. It's OK, but not as good or reliable as the landline phone. I don't use it often. I subscribe to a service that blocks about 90% of spam and robot calls from my cellphone. I might think of that but my landline is pretty much free as long as I have DSL. Since everything is underground here the POTS lines are pretty much 100% available. I can't say that about Comcast, the only other real choice. They are up on poles with repeaters connected to the grid. Just about anything takes them down. You are on DSL? --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com |
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On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 10:44:07 -0700 (PDT), Its Me
wrote: On Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 1:31:17 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:00:00 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 11:25:05 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 08:02:10 -0400, John H wrote: I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can hear the ring and answer it on my home phone. Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the telephone! Yippee. You guys should have told me about that years ago! How does that work? Do you dock your cell phone in the home phone base? Obviously if you are out on the golf course with your phone, the home phone is not going to ring. (unless there is something about SIM cards that I do not understand) === I'm guessing it's probably a "Bluetooth" link similar to what most modern cars provide for hands free operation of your cell phone. Virtually all of the newer cell phones have Bluetooth capability. If you have a lot of MP3 music stored on your phone Bluetooth is also useful to linking up with wireless speakers, ear buds, etc. That is still "docked" in the data sense. If you are more than 10 meters from the house phone, it is a paperweight. As long as everyone has their own phone that is OK but if you are home alone and don't have a phone you are Amish. I suppose you can back that up with VOIP but at that point, why bother with the cell interface? If you don't have a cell phone you are correct, but this day who doesn't? If you are home, you can use your "home" cordless phone to make and receive calls. If you are away, you have your cell phone with you. For some that may not make sense, but for many (most?), it works great. We only keep out landline for the home alarm reporting service. One day I'll get an internet phone service and get rid of the TW bundled phone. It's just not that much money or big of a deal to make it worth it right now. So this thing responds to any cell it is mated with (more than one)? How does it decide which one to use with an outgoing call? |
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On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 14:43:35 -0400, John H
wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:11:28 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 7/30/17 10:41 AM, True North wrote: On Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:02:14 UTC-3, John H wrote: I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can hear the ring and answer it on my home phone. Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the telephone! Yippee. You guys should have told me about that years ago! Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number. I finally "dumped" my "wired" landline phone here after 15 years, and set up an "internet" phone from the cable supplier. It's OK, but not as good or reliable as the landline phone. I don't use it often. I subscribe to a service that blocks about 90% of spam and robot calls from my cellphone. I use VoIP several years ago for a while. Didn't like it. Too much static or dropped calls or other screwy stuff. I do use Skype for calls to a land line at my friend's house in Holland. Costs all of $.02/minute, and the sound has always been spectacular. I might think of dumping the POTS if it would save me any money. As long as I have DSL it is just bundled in the package and there is no money to be had in dropping it. I do get a big suite of extra services but I only use a couple. Caller ID on my TV is cool. I use the conference call deal now and then. |
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On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 19:01:04 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: I might think of that but my landline is pretty much free as long as I have DSL. Since everything is underground here the POTS lines are pretty much 100% available. I can't say that about Comcast, the only other real choice. They are up on poles with repeaters connected to the grid. Just about anything takes them down. You are on DSL? Yes. It is the most reliable connection around here and I have dial up as a backup. The DSL is 10MB or more, plenty to stream movies or whatever. If you are just reading Email and text newsgroups, dial up still works. |
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wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:11:28 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 7/30/17 10:41 AM, True North wrote: On Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:02:14 UTC-3, John H wrote: I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can hear the ring and answer it on my home phone. Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the telephone! Yippee. You guys should have told me about that years ago! Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number. I finally "dumped" my "wired" landline phone here after 15 years, and set up an "internet" phone from the cable supplier. It's OK, but not as good or reliable as the landline phone. I don't use it often. I subscribe to a service that blocks about 90% of spam and robot calls from my cellphone. I might think of that but my landline is pretty much free as long as I have DSL. Since everything is underground here the POTS lines are pretty much 100% available. I can't say that about Comcast, the only other real choice. They are up on poles with repeaters connected to the grid. Just about anything takes them down. I have Comcast, but our cables and lines are all underground. Home phone $10 a month VOIP. |
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On Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 8:18:30 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 10:44:07 -0700 (PDT), Its Me wrote: On Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 1:31:17 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:00:00 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 11:25:05 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 08:02:10 -0400, John H wrote: I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can hear the ring and answer it on my home phone. Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the telephone! Yippee. You guys should have told me about that years ago! How does that work? Do you dock your cell phone in the home phone base? Obviously if you are out on the golf course with your phone, the home phone is not going to ring. (unless there is something about SIM cards that I do not understand) === I'm guessing it's probably a "Bluetooth" link similar to what most modern cars provide for hands free operation of your cell phone. Virtually all of the newer cell phones have Bluetooth capability. If you have a lot of MP3 music stored on your phone Bluetooth is also useful to linking up with wireless speakers, ear buds, etc. That is still "docked" in the data sense. If you are more than 10 meters from the house phone, it is a paperweight. As long as everyone has their own phone that is OK but if you are home alone and don't have a phone you are Amish. I suppose you can back that up with VOIP but at that point, why bother with the cell interface? If you don't have a cell phone you are correct, but this day who doesn't? If you are home, you can use your "home" cordless phone to make and receive calls. If you are away, you have your cell phone with you. For some that may not make sense, but for many (most?), it works great. We only keep out landline for the home alarm reporting service. One day I'll get an internet phone service and get rid of the TW bundled phone. It's just not that much money or big of a deal to make it worth it right now. So this thing responds to any cell it is mated with (more than one)? How does it decide which one to use with an outgoing call? You can pick which one using the buttons on the phone. |
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Jul 30True North
- show quoted text - Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number. ..... But at least with a smart phone you can easily block the unwanted numbers... |
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Tim wrote:
Jul 30True North - show quoted text - Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number. .... But at least with a smart phone you can easily block the unwanted numbers... You can try and you will have some success, but technology has advanced on the spam caller side, too. -- Posted with my iPad Pro |
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Keyser Soze
- hide quoted text - Tim wrote: Jul 30True North - show quoted text - Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number. .... But at least with a smart phone you can easily block the unwanted numbers... You can try and you will have some success, but technology has advanced on the spam caller side, too. -- Posted with my iPad Pro .... If the call comes in on a legitimate number it gets blocked. Of course they'll use another number next time. It gets blocked too. If the ID says unknown it gets ignored anyhow. I think I've blocked about 17 bogus callers on my cell phone now |
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On 7/31/17 8:24 AM, Tim wrote:
If the call comes in on a legitimate number it gets blocked. Of course they'll use another number next time. It gets blocked too. If the ID says unknown it gets ignored anyhow. I think I've blocked about 17 bogus callers on my cell phone now As I stated, one can have *some* success blocking unwanted calls, but the technology for callers has advanced, too, and callers have a way of masking their actual phone numbers and even their countries of origin. I do manage to block most robocalls and a lot of spam calls and in fact can block the phone from ringing on most of them, but the methodology to do this is far from perfect. I also block callers who hide their phone numbers in addition to not answering most callers who don't supply a caller ID. I figure that anyone trying to reach me who doesn't get their call answered and doesn't leave a voicemail message isn't worth bothering with... :) |
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On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:18:12 -0400, wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 10:44:07 -0700 (PDT), Its Me wrote: On Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 1:31:17 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:00:00 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 11:25:05 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 08:02:10 -0400, John H wrote: I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can hear the ring and answer it on my home phone. Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the telephone! Yippee. You guys should have told me about that years ago! How does that work? Do you dock your cell phone in the home phone base? Obviously if you are out on the golf course with your phone, the home phone is not going to ring. (unless there is something about SIM cards that I do not understand) === I'm guessing it's probably a "Bluetooth" link similar to what most modern cars provide for hands free operation of your cell phone. Virtually all of the newer cell phones have Bluetooth capability. If you have a lot of MP3 music stored on your phone Bluetooth is also useful to linking up with wireless speakers, ear buds, etc. That is still "docked" in the data sense. If you are more than 10 meters from the house phone, it is a paperweight. As long as everyone has their own phone that is OK but if you are home alone and don't have a phone you are Amish. I suppose you can back that up with VOIP but at that point, why bother with the cell interface? If you don't have a cell phone you are correct, but this day who doesn't? If you are home, you can use your "home" cordless phone to make and receive calls. If you are away, you have your cell phone with you. For some that may not make sense, but for many (most?), it works great. We only keep out landline for the home alarm reporting service. One day I'll get an internet phone service and get rid of the TW bundled phone. It's just not that much money or big of a deal to make it worth it right now. So this thing responds to any cell it is mated with (more than one)? Mine can pair with two cell phones. Haven't paired my wife's yet./ How does it decide which one to use with an outgoing call? Haven't disconnected from the land line yet, so can't answer the question. Now I can. On the handset the word 'Cell' appears in the screen. By hitting the button under 'Cell', the cell phone is selected for the outgoing call. As I have only one cell paired, only one shows up. If I had two paired, I'd probably (I think) have to select Cell 1 or Cell 2. Please keep asking these questions. I'm learning more and more. |
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 05:14:34 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote:
Jul 30True North - show quoted text - Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number. .... But at least with a smart phone you can easily block the unwanted numbers... I can block up to 250 numbers on the Panasonic line, but only 10 through Cox. |
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 07:39:50 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote: wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:11:28 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 7/30/17 10:41 AM, True North wrote: On Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:02:14 UTC-3, John H wrote: I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can hear the ring and answer it on my home phone. Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the telephone! Yippee. You guys should have told me about that years ago! Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number. I finally "dumped" my "wired" landline phone here after 15 years, and set up an "internet" phone from the cable supplier. It's OK, but not as good or reliable as the landline phone. I don't use it often. I subscribe to a service that blocks about 90% of spam and robot calls from my cellphone. I might think of that but my landline is pretty much free as long as I have DSL. Since everything is underground here the POTS lines are pretty much 100% available. I can't say that about Comcast, the only other real choice. They are up on poles with repeaters connected to the grid. Just about anything takes them down. I have Comcast, but our cables and lines are all underground. Home phone $10 a month VOIP. When Sprint bought out United Telephone in the 80s, they ripped out virtually all of the old "plant" and built a system for the 21st century. Comcast was not that committed when they bought MediaOne and we still have the junk they got from South Florida Cable. They do offer blazing speed but reliability sucks and their service department is rated the worst of anything that gets rated around here. My neighbor used to work for them and he quit in disgust along with most of the real "cable guys". They have MAP monkeys and script readers now. |
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 05:14:34 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote: Jul 30True North - show quoted text - Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number. .... But at least with a smart phone you can easily block the unwanted numbers... That does not help much when the spammers are using caller ID spoofers. The number keeps changing. |
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:13:43 -0400, John H
wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 12:58:06 -0400, wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 05:14:34 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: Jul 30True North - show quoted text - Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number. .... But at least with a smart phone you can easily block the unwanted numbers... That does not help much when the spammers are using caller ID spoofers. The number keeps changing. You're right. I don't even bother blocking them unless I see the same caller and number several times. I just don't answer unrecognized numbers. If folks start to leave a message, and I recognize them, then they'll get answered. Otherwise it doesn't happen. The strange one is when your own number pops on the caller ID. |
Who says I'm 'low tech'...
On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:52:45 -0400, wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:13:43 -0400, John H wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 12:58:06 -0400, wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 05:14:34 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: Jul 30True North - show quoted text - Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number. .... But at least with a smart phone you can easily block the unwanted numbers... That does not help much when the spammers are using caller ID spoofers. The number keeps changing. You're right. I don't even bother blocking them unless I see the same caller and number several times. I just don't answer unrecognized numbers. If folks start to leave a message, and I recognize them, then they'll get answered. Otherwise it doesn't happen. The strange one is when your own number pops on the caller ID. My cell phone number shows up quite often on my land line CID. If I'm running around and think of something I want to remember later, I'll often call my home phone and leave a message as a reminder. Works well. |
Who says I'm 'low tech'...
On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:09:28 -0400, John H
wrote: The strange one is when your own number pops on the caller ID. My cell phone number shows up quite often on my land line CID. If I'm running around and think of something I want to remember later, I'll often call my home phone and leave a message as a reminder. Works well. I am talking about the POTS number showing up on the POTS caller ID. |
Who says I'm 'low tech'...
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Who says I'm 'low tech'...
On Monday, July 31, 2017 at 5:18:04 PM UTC-4, John H wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:31:26 -0400, wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:09:28 -0400, John H wrote: The strange one is when your own number pops on the caller ID. My cell phone number shows up quite often on my land line CID. If I'm running around and think of something I want to remember later, I'll often call my home phone and leave a message as a reminder. Works well. I am talking about the POTS number showing up on the POTS caller ID. What is POTS? Plain Old Telephone Service |
Who says I'm 'low tech'...
On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:18:02 -0400, John H
wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:31:26 -0400, wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:09:28 -0400, John H wrote: The strange one is when your own number pops on the caller ID. My cell phone number shows up quite often on my land line CID. If I'm running around and think of something I want to remember later, I'll often call my home phone and leave a message as a reminder. Works well. I am talking about the POTS number showing up on the POTS caller ID. What is POTS? Plain Old Telephone Service |
Who says I'm 'low tech'...
On Monday, July 31, 2017 at 7:11:31 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:18:02 -0400, John H wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:31:26 -0400, wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:09:28 -0400, John H wrote: The strange one is when your own number pops on the caller ID. My cell phone number shows up quite often on my land line CID. If I'm running around and think of something I want to remember later, I'll often call my home phone and leave a message as a reminder. Works well. I am talking about the POTS number showing up on the POTS caller ID. What is POTS? Plain Old Telephone Service I beat ya to it. :) Technically it's a 2-wire loop start telephone line. When you come off-hook, you draw loop current on the line, which signals the office that you want dial tone. When a trunk is available, you get dial tone. Then you dial the number, and the office PABX connects you. Their PABX send ring voltage down the POTS line to their phone, which (in the old days) rings the mechanical bell. They pick up, and you have a talkpath connection between the phones. Interesting, if you've never travelled outside the US, you've probably never waited on dial tone. Some phone systems don't have enough capacity in some countries to handle the volume. The first time I experienced it was in Venezuela. I picked up the phone in the hotel, and waited about 20-30 seconds for dial tone. When I told the operator I wanted to make a call back to the US, they said they'd call me back when a circuit was available. About 15 minutes later I got a return call and my call went through. This was over 20 years ago. |
Who says I'm 'low tech'...
On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:04:41 -0700 (PDT), Its Me wrote:
On Monday, July 31, 2017 at 5:18:04 PM UTC-4, John H wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:31:26 -0400, wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:09:28 -0400, John H wrote: The strange one is when your own number pops on the caller ID. My cell phone number shows up quite often on my land line CID. If I'm running around and think of something I want to remember later, I'll often call my home phone and leave a message as a reminder. Works well. I am talking about the POTS number showing up on the POTS caller ID. What is POTS? Plain Old Telephone Service Well, I just reckon I am pretty low tech. |
Who says I'm 'low tech'...
On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:11:52 -0700 (PDT), Its Me wrote:
On Monday, July 31, 2017 at 7:11:31 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:18:02 -0400, John H wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:31:26 -0400, wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:09:28 -0400, John H wrote: The strange one is when your own number pops on the caller ID. My cell phone number shows up quite often on my land line CID. If I'm running around and think of something I want to remember later, I'll often call my home phone and leave a message as a reminder. Works well. I am talking about the POTS number showing up on the POTS caller ID. What is POTS? Plain Old Telephone Service I beat ya to it. :) Technically it's a 2-wire loop start telephone line. When you come off-hook, you draw loop current on the line, which signals the office that you want dial tone. When a trunk is available, you get dial tone. Then you dial the number, and the office PABX connects you. Their PABX send ring voltage down the POTS line to their phone, which (in the old days) rings the mechanical bell. They pick up, and you have a talkpath connection between the phones. Interesting, if you've never travelled outside the US, you've probably never waited on dial tone. Some phone systems don't have enough capacity in some countries to handle the volume. The first time I experienced it was in Venezuela. I picked up the phone in the hotel, and waited about 20-30 seconds for dial tone. When I told the operator I wanted to make a call back to the US, they said they'd call me back when a circuit was available. About 15 minutes later I got a return call and my call went through. This was over 20 years ago. And now I can use Skype to call a Netherlands land line for 2.3 cents a minute, with super quality. |
Who says I'm 'low tech'...
On Tue, 01 Aug 2017 07:01:53 -0400, John H
wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:04:41 -0700 (PDT), Its Me wrote: On Monday, July 31, 2017 at 5:18:04 PM UTC-4, John H wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:31:26 -0400, wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:09:28 -0400, John H wrote: The strange one is when your own number pops on the caller ID. My cell phone number shows up quite often on my land line CID. If I'm running around and think of something I want to remember later, I'll often call my home phone and leave a message as a reminder. Works well. I am talking about the POTS number showing up on the POTS caller ID. What is POTS? Plain Old Telephone Service Well, I just reckon I am pretty low tech. I still have 2 rotary dial phones connected. That is low tech. The one in my garage still has the original Telco label in the dial face with my phone number on it. That is the best phone in the house for reliability. |
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